FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis’s Studies in Words is a title that was published today (Sept. 9) in 1960 by Cambridge University Press. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Language exists to communicate whatever it can communicate. Some things it communicates so badly that we never attempt to communicate them by words if any …
CSL Daily 6/24
FACT OF THE DAY: The first paperback edition of The Silver Chair came out today (6/24) in 1965 (first published 9/7/53). – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The simple physical pains and (still more) the pleasures can’t be expressed in language. I labour the point lest the devil should hereafter try to make you …
Fact / Quote / Quiz: 9/9
FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis’s Studies in Words is a title that was published today (9/9) in 1960 by Cambridge University Press. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Language exists to communicate whatever it can communicate. Some things it communicates so badly that we never attempt to communicate them by words if any other …
Fact / Quote / Quiz: 6/24
FACT OF THE DAY: The first paperback edition of The Silver Chair came out today (6/24) in 1965 (first published 9/7/53). – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The simple physical pains and (still more) the pleasures can’t be expressed in language. I labour the point lest the devil should hereafter try to make you …
Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: September 9th
FACT OF THE DAY:
Lewis’s Studies in Words is a title that was published today (9/9) in 1960 by Cambridge University Press.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“Language exists to communicate whatever it can communicate. Some things it communicates so badly that we never attempt to communicate them by words if any other medium is available.”
Studies in Words
(Published 9/9/1960)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
Which series of broadcasts that only featured Lewis was the only one where he addressed questions from listeners?
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Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: June 24th
FACT OF THE DAY:
The first paperback edition of The Silver Chair came out today (6/24) in 1965 (first published 9/7/53).
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“The simple physical pains and (still more) the pleasures can’t be expressed in language. I labour the point lest the devil should hereafter try to make you believe that what was wordless was therefore vague and nebulous. But in reality it is just the clearest, the most concrete, and the most indubitable realities which escape language: not because they are vague but because language is.”
Letter to Rhona Bodle 6/24/1949
(Published in The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume II)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
What honor did Lewis receive this month in 1946?
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QUOTE: September 9, 2013
“Language exists to communicate whatever it can communicate. Some things it communicates so badly that we never attempt to communicate them by words if any other medium is available.”
Studies in Words
(Published 9/9/1960)
Quote: June 24, 2013
“The simple physical pains and (still more) the pleasures can’t be expressed in language. I labour the point lest the devil should hereafter try to make you believe that what was wordless was therefore vague and nebulous. But in reality it is just the clearest, the most concrete, and the most indubitable realities which escape language: not because they are vague but because language is.”
Letter to Rhona Bodle
(from Volume 2 on 6/24/1949)